Keir Starmer tells @LBC people in Hartlepool are worried about “jobs, jobs, jobs”.
He says the fight for the seat was “always going to be tough” after 2019.
*Jeremy Corbyn won the seat twice in 2017 and 2019.
Nick Ferrari puts the Survation poll to Sir Keir that the Tories have a 17 point lead in Hartlepool.
But he admits that “nobody is particularly interested in the details” of wallpaper-gate.
Starmer - on Survation/GMB poll: "I'm well aware that in Hartlepool, we've got to earn every vote."
Whilst he said people weren't interested in details of PM's flat, he says "general sense" there "is one rule for them and another rule for everybody else" is "breaking through".
Sir Keir: "I have not met many people who have had their flat or house refurbished and don't know who has paid for it.
"He (the PM) knows the answer to that question and he's not being straight."
Sir Keir hedges on whether Labour will support a return of foreign holidays.
"Last year, the situation was chopping and changing almost every week through the summer...
"We can't go down that path again... We have got to be very, very careful..."
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Priti Patel tells @LBC "everyone knows her view" on prison sentences, when asked about ten-year terms for people who lie on their passenger locator forms.
Caller Jeremy wants to know why Boris Johnson didn't listen to her view to close the borders at the start of the first wave last year.
PP says decision based on Sage advice.
"We all have active debate. We all air our views, we have taken a collective decision."
Next up Alan, a PC forced to retire due to injury.
"Why are the police not be prioritised for the vaccine?"
Priti Patel says some forces have "informal arrangements" with Clinical Commissioning Groups to get hold of the vaccine.
New: City Hall quango London & Partners has held talks with company linked to oppression of Uygurs.
iFlytek provides voice recognition technology to police in China’s Xinxiang province. It’s on a list of companies banned by US.
MIT and Rutgers uni severed ties.
But not L&P.
Detailed with a quarterly report published last April, L&P revealed it had a "new significant project" with iFlytek.
But in 2017, Human Rights Watch found the company had been working with Chinese police to develop technology intended to identify targeted voices in phone calls.
.@TomTugendhat - chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee - told @LBC he thinks @SadiqKhan should "reject" the company.